I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

- Antonia Fraser

Ninety-seven is my lucky number.

- Antonia Fraser

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

- Antonia Fraser

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

- Antonia Fraser

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

- Antonia Fraser

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

- Antonia Fraser

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

- Antonia Fraser

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

- Antonia Fraser

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

- Antonia Fraser

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

- Antonia Fraser

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

- Antonia Fraser

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

- Antonia Fraser

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

- Antonia Fraser

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

- Antonia Fraser

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

- Antonia Fraser

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

- Antonia Fraser

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

- Antonia Fraser

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

- Antonia Fraser

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

- Antonia Fraser

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

- Antonia Fraser